GIS-supported epidemiological analysis on canine Angiostrongylus vasorum and Crenosoma vulpis infections in Germany

Table 1 Angiostrongylus vasorum- and Crenosoma vulpis-infected dogs in the federal states of Germany

Federal state	Totals	A. vasorum-positive	C. vulpis-positive	P-value	95% CI lower	95% CI upper
Baden-Wuerttemberg	3,387	121	70	< 0.0001	1.292	2.401
*Bavaria*	*2,512*	35	64	*0.004*	*0.346*	*0.832*
Berlin	389	14	14	1	0.435	2.298
Brandenburg	273	6	6	1	0.264	3.793
Bremen	28	1	0	1	0.026	Inf
Hamburg	159	0	3	0.248	0	2.411
*Hesse*	*1,400*	25	46	*0.016*	*0.313*	*0.895*
Lower Saxony	467	1	7	0.069	0.003	1.106
Mecklenburg Western Pomerania	116	2	5	0.446	0.037	2.449
North Rhine-Westphalia	2,251	46	39	0.511	0.752	1.87
Rhineland-Palatinate	745	29	14	0.029	1.071	4.367
Saarland	110	5	0	0.06	0.933	Inf
*Saxony*	*307*	0	10	*0.002*	0	*0.437*
Saxony-Anhalt	134	0	1	1	0	39.001
Schleswig-Holstein	283	2	1	1	0.104	118.746
Thuringia	121	1	5	0.213	0.004	1.775

Note: Text in bold: statistically significantly increased prevalence of A. vasorum-positive dogs in the respective federal state. Text in bold italic: statistically significantly increased prevalence of C. vulpis-positive dogs in the respective federal state

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